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Plural of delusion

regular plural

The plural of delusion is delusions.

Forms of delusion

Singulardelusion /dɪˈl(j)uːʒ(ə)n/
Pluraldelusions
Countablecountable and uncountable

Delusions in a sentence

  • “Project Greenlight,” however, bore down on the soft underbelly of the movie business, focusing on the delusions and colossal blunders of first-time directors, seemingly selected as much for their unlovability as their talent.2007 May 24, Alessandra Stanley, “A Rose-Colored Reality Where Everyone Wins”, in The New York Times
  • All of them are second-raters with delusions of grandeur.From the entry second-rater
  • There are now several stories of people being sucked into ChatGPT-induced delusions, or even “AI psychosis”.2026 April 29, Jamie Bartlett, “Meet the AI jailbreakers: ‘I see the worst things humanity has produced’”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry AI psychosis
  • The man was an upjumped peasant with delusions of his own importance.2014, Brian Stavely, The Emperor's Blades. From the entry jumped-up
  • World War I shattered the gossima delusions of the aristocracy, and the Great Depression humbled the rest.2010, Roger Bennett, Eli Horowitz, Everything You Know Is Pong, Harper Collins, →ISBN, page 4. From the entry gossima

Meaning of delusion

  1. noun An adamant belief in a falsehood despite incontestable evidence.
  2. noun The state of being deluded or misled, or process of deluding somebody.
  3. noun That which is falsely or delusively believed or propagated; false belief; error in belief.

Full definition of delusion

Questions about the plural of delusion

What is the plural of delusion?
The plural of delusion is delusions.
Is delusion countable?
Delusion is a countable and uncountable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: delusion (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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